Garment or wearing-apparel, and more particularly to corsets



l. LA MONTAGNE. GARMENT 0R wEAmNG AFPA AND MORE FARTICULARLY T0 CORSETS. APPLICATION'FILED FEB. 24, 1919.

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Patented Dec. 14, 1920.

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IVAN LA MONTAGNE, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO BAY STATE CORSET COMPANY, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MASSA- CHUSETTS.

GARIVIENT 0R VVEARING-APPAREI, AND MORE PARTICULARLY TO CORSETS,

Application led February 24, 1919.

To all whom t may conce/m:

Be it known that l, IVAN LA MONTAGNE, a citizen of the United States of America, residing in Springfield, Hampden county, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improve` ments in Garments or Wearing-Apparel, and more particularly to Corsets, a specification of which follows.

This invention relates to improvements in garments or wearing apparel, and more particularly to corsets in which a pocket 1s permanently attached to one of the members composing the garment. The object of the invention is to provide a pocket for the safe keeping of small articles as jewelry, and also to serve the purpose as a pad to protect the wearer against pressure caused by the clasp or connecting means on the stays of the corset.

The invention, broadly considered, com prises a pocket formed of fabric, or other suitable material, which is permanently attached to one of the members or sections at the front part of the garment and preferably adjacent one of the stays and having a flap portion to close the entrance to the pocket. This pocket is located over the clasp in order to prevent injury to the wearer.

Referring to the drawings:

Figure 1 shows a sectional view of the front inside portion of an ordinary corset structure illustrating the stays and the connecting clasps with the flap of the pocket closed or hanging in a pensent position.

Fig. 2 is a ,sectional view on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1 showing the relative location of the pocket, the flap and the clasps which are carried by the stays.

Referring to the drawings in detail: 1 and 2 designate respectively the two members or sections of the corset structure. rEhe studs secured to one of the stays are indicated at 3, the stays being shown in section at 4t and the fabric, inclosing the stays, at 6 designates the usual connecting clasp which engages the stud 3 to hold the sections 1 and 2 together.i Referring to the pocket construction, 7 designates the back porl ion of the pocket which is secured at one of its side edges directly to the section 1 as shown in Fig. 1, by means of the stitching or threads indicated at 8 and which are Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 14, 1920. Serial No. 278,570.

located at the inner edge of the stay 4. The pocket, it will be noticed, is wide enough to extend across the meeting edges of the two sections 1 and 2, and wide enough to coincide with the inner edge of the oppositely located stay to which the clasps G are secured. It is closed by means o f the flap or extension 9 of the back portion 7. As shown in Fig. 1, the flap is closed. In Fig. 2 it is shown open part way in order to give access to the entrance opening 10, the upper edge of the front portion being below the upper edge of the back portion. The front surface of the flap 9 is preferably covered with some soft material, as plush, indicated at 11, which will bear against the. person as indicated by the dotted lines 12 in order to cushion the stays 4 as readily understood.

It will be seen that the pocket proper is preferably formed of a single piece of fabric material, the front part of the pocket being indicated at 13, the fold at the bottom being indicated at 14 and that the closure or iiap 9 is a continuation of the portions 13 and 14; or in other words, the pocket is a one piece structure, the outer edges of which are stitched together as indicated at 8 and 15.

From this description it will be seen that the invention includes the double purpose or object of furnishing a pocket for valuables and a pad for cushioning purposes.

What I claim is:

1. As an article of manufacture, a corset having two members, a pocket structure thereof and having one edge only secured to one of the members by stitching the same on a line adjacent the inner edge of the front fastening of said member and of a width suficient to extend across the front meeting edges of the two members and over the other member an equal distance, a pendant or flap for closing the pocket structure and having its outer surface provided with a layer of soft material, said flap being located on the inside of the corset with the plush surface toward the wearer, said pocket and flap serving as a pad for the wearer to prevent injury of the fastening devices of the corset.

2. A corset structure having two members, stays therefor, the combination, with one of the front stays thereof, of a pocket secured thereto with an opening at its upper end and accessible from the inside of the corset and designed to extend across the space between the meeting edges at the front part of the garment and having a pendant flap extending across the opening of the pocket and a continuation of the rear part of the pocket structure that is. secured directly to one of the corset members, as described.

3. An article of manufacture, a corset having two members, stays therefor, studs and clasps on the stays, a pad and pocket construction located at the upper front meeting edges of the members and on the inner surface of the corset, said pad serving as a pocket and comprising a single strip of fabric material that is folded between its ends, one of the folded portions of the strip being stitched directly to one of the corset members only and near the front connecting stay of one member, another portion of the strip serving as a pendant or Aiiap to close the opening at the upper end of the pocket, and the remaining portion ofthe strip serving as the front part or portion of the pocket proper, as described, the width of the pad and pocket extending across the meeting edges of the members and over the studs and clasps as described.

IVAN LA MONTAGNE. 

